Types of Sentences
What type of sentence is the following?
The sun is shining today.
Statement.
Which sentence has the correct punctuation?
A. Where is my pencil.
B. Where is my pencil?
C. Where is my pencil!
B. Where is my pencil?
What is a group of hippos called?
A. A herd
B. A bloat
C. A pod
B. A bloat of hippos.
I can ___ the birds singing.
a) here
b) hear
Complete the three degrees of comparison:
fast → __________ → __________
fast → faster → fastest
What type of sentence is the following?
Are you going home after school or do you have netball?
Question.
Identify the VERB in this sentence:
The children laughed loudly.
laughed.
Choose the antonym for “fragile”:
A. Strong
B. Delicate
C. Breakable
A. Strong
Is “bark” and “bark” an example of a homophone or homonym?
Homonym
Complete the sentence:
Mount Everest is the ___ mountain in the world. (high)
Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world.
What type of sentence is the following?
Please close the door.
Command.
Identify the ADJECTIVE in this sentence:
The small puppy slept peacefully.
small.
Complete the three degrees of comparison:
__________ → __________ → worst
bad → worse → worst
The boy ___ the ball over the fence.
a) threw
b) through
a) threw
Complete the three degrees of comparison:
beautiful → __________ → __________
beautiful → more beautiful → most beautiful
What type of sentence is the following?
What an incredible goal, Liam!
Exclamation.
What is the collective noun for a group of pandas?
A. A colony of pandas
B. An embarrassment of pandas
C. A clan of pandas
B. An embarrassment of pandas.
Is the "a" in the following sentence a definite or indefinite article?:
I saw a bird in the garden.
It is an indefinite article.
a/an = indefinite article
the = definite article
The sentence below contains a homophone error. Correct it:
“I went to the see to look for shells, but I could not sea any.”
“I went to the see to look for shells, but I could not SEE any.”
Complete the three degrees of comparison:
good → __________ → __________
good → better → best
What type of sentence is the following?
Remember to bring your English book to class tomorrow.
Command.
Identify the ADVERB in this sentence:
The girl carefully opened the box.
carefully.
Read the sentence and answer the questions:
“What an enormous elephant that was!”
a) What type of sentence is it?
b) What is the adjective?
c) What punctuation mark is used at the end?
a) Exclamation
b) Enormous
c) Exclamation mark (!)
Is the pair of words “flower” and “flour” an example of a homophone or a homonym? Explain your answer.
Homophone - The words sound the same but have different spellings and meanings.
Complete the three degrees of comparison:
__________ → more difficult → __________
difficult → more difficult → most difficult